Kennen vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kennen
based on 1,569 Kennen vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kennen vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kennen vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kennen against Maokai
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Kennen vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kennen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Kennen vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. For instance, Kennen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kennen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kennen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kennen and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kennen or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kennen usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.2% win rate. As a result, Kennen makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Kennen does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Kennen also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kennen into Maokai.
Moreover, Kennen has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kennen vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kennen is a bad counter for Maokai. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kennen against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kennen usually accumulates much more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Maokai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Kennen, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kennen vs Maokai counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% win rate overall.
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